1. “Where’s Papa going with that ax?” said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.”

2. "In the beginning there were 9 of us.”

3. "My mother thinks I’m dead.”

4. "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake."

5. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

6. “It was a pleasure to burn.”

7. “It’s been three days since we’ve seen the sun. Yesterday it started raining and it hasn’t stopped yet.”

8. "Next week I start fifth grade. Since I’ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified.”

9. "It was one of those super-duper –cold Saturdays.”

10. “Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything.”

11. “These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket.”

12. “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

13. “My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down.”

14. “The screw through her ankle had rusted, the engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle.”

15. “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.”

16. “He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”

17. “Moragrath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, former Baron in the Kingdom of Araluen, looked out over his bleak, rainswept domain and, for perhaps the thousandth time, cursed.”

18. “Kendra stared out the side window of the SUV, watching foliage blur past.”

19. “I want a refund from ancestry.com. They traced my family all the way back to the revolution.”

20. “There are places you can go,” Ariana tells him, “and a guy as smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.”


Choices:

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  • Cinder by Marissa Meyer
  • Day of Tears by Julius Lester
  • Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
  • Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Holes by Louis Sachar
  • I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
  • Legend by Marie Lu
  • Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
  • Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
  • Maze Runner by James Dashner
  • Ranger’s Apprentice 1: Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
  • Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Ungifted by Gordon Korman
  • Unwind by Neal Shusterman
  • Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher P. Curtis
  • Wonder by J. C. Palacio

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